On 2007-08-29, Xah Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A couple years ago, i posted a programing problem, about > writing a function that will sort a arbitrarily dimentioned > matrix in any possible way to sort it. > > Such a function, is rather typical in functional programing > languages. I wrote a version in 1999 in perl for practical > purposes, since sorting a matrix (i.e. list of lists) is rather > common. With this function, i can have a single interface to > deal with any list (including list of lists). > > It is ideal, that a language's function for sort actually are > of this generality. > (See ?What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language?, Xah Lee, 2005. > http://xahlee.org/perl-python/what_is_expresiveness.html > ) > > The advantage of such a generality, is that a programer don't > need to write a sorting code every time she encounters a list.
The advantage of such a richly implemented language as Python, is that a programmer don't need to write a general sorting algorithm at all. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
